Students are required to use an industry-based case study of your Problem Based Learning (PBL) exercise to complete the assignment. You have to discuss the chosen case study with tutor in week 1 and 2.
You could also design your own case study to avoid any Academic Misconduct related issues, but make sure that you discuss it with the Lecturer/Tutor to check if it meets the criteria of an industry case study for the assignment.
Assignment 1
Project Scope and report requirements
The project scope and requirement should have a detail explanation of the planning and designing of a network. It is recommended that bullet points are included whenever necessary. Use your PBL/ tutorial findings.
The following is the scope for Assignment.
A real-world business case study designed or chosen.
Include points that you have gathered from case study.
Discuss in a tabular form how the information obtained will be useful in designing the network.
Network design and justification
Draw a network design. Network should include the following requirements:
3 routers (at least)
4 switches
10 PCs
4 VLANs.
Suitable IP addressing scheme in tabular form (assume as many hosts as necessary for each department). Use your MIT student ID to come up with your own IP addressing scheme (to avoid Academic Misconduct). Justify the choice of IP address.
Marking Criteria
The following tentative marking criteria will be followed for the assignment.
Marks
Section to be included in the
report
Description of the section
5+5 = 10
A real-world business case study and requirements
Briefly outline the report and discuss the following requirements.
A real-world case study.
Discuss in a tabular form how the
information obtained will be useful in designing the network.
5+5 = 10
Network design and justification Use your MIT student ID to come up with your own IP addressing scheme (to avoid Academic Misconduct).
Justify the choice of IP address.
Well-designed network diagram.
Labelled with IP addresses.
A clear description of the approach taken for the design (may use bullet points for this).
Marking Rubrics
The details about the rubric are as follows:
Grades
HD
80% & above
D
70 – 79%
CR 60 – 69%
P
50 – 59%
Fail
<50%
Business case study and requirements (10)
Concise and specific to the project
Topics relevant and soundly analysed
Generally relevant and analysed
Some relevance and briefly presented
Not relevant to the assignment topic
Network design and justification (10)
All elements are present and very well integrated
Components present with good cohesion
Components presented and mostly well integrated
Most components present and an average
integration
Lacks components and not integrated well
